Water-closet tank.



A. C. RECKER.

WATER CLOSET TANK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 30, I914.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

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7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 30, 1914. Serial No. 854,505.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADoLPH C. RnoKnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakville, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Closet Tanks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a front View of a water closet tank, partly broken away, having a disinfectant holder applied thereto, in accord ance with my invention. Fig. 2 a broken top View of the same. Fig. 3 view on the line a;b of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 a broken sectional view illustrating a modified form of my invention.

This invention relates to an improvement in water closet tanks and. particularly to what are known as low-down tanks, and which are usually provided with covers.

The object of this invention is to provide a receptacle or container for disinfecting material which may be exposed through the top of the tank; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 8 of the drawings, I form the cover 2 with an opening 3,- and to the inside of the cover I attach a cup-shaped receptacle 4. This receptacle has a flange 5 provided with a series of perforations 6 and is adapted to be secured to the inside of the cover by bolts 7 and 8, or otherwise. Over the opening 3 I provide a cap 9. This cap is preferably round and provided with ears 10 and 11. One ear, as 10, is perforated, and the bolt 8 may pass through this perforation so as to hinge the cap to the top of the tank cover. The opposite ear 11 is preferably formed with a notch 12 which may engage with the head of the bolt 7 when the cap is turned into place over the opening 3. This cap is formed with a series of perforations a sectional 13, and within the cap is a plate 14 also provided with perforations l5lcorresponding to the perforations 13 in the cap and adapted to be turned in line with them, or turned into position between them. This plate is connected with the cap by a knob handle 16 by which the plate may be conveniently turned. The cup 4: may be filled with cotton, sponge or other material which will contain a disinfecting material or disinfecting material may be poured into the cup. When in position for use, the perforations in the plate will be turned to register with the perforations in the cap, and as the tank Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

"FFIQEFT T empties air will be drawn into the tank.

through the registeringholes. 13, 15, and passing over the disinfecting material will be impregnated thereby.- Then as the tank -fills the air in the tank will be forced outward through the openings 5 in the cup and discharged into the room. When not required, the plate maybe turned so as to close the perforations or openings in the cap.

Sometimes tank covers are formed from sheet metal as shown in'Fig. 4 of the drawings in which case as the cup17 with the perforatedflange 18, like the cup and perforated flange above described, may be struck inward from the body of the cover and then a cap applied thereto in the man ner above described.

I claim 1. The combination with a water closet I tank, of a cover provided with a disinfectant holding cup extending inward from its under face and formed with openings through which air may be drawn by the discharge of the water from the tank. a

2. The combination with a water closet tank, of a cover formed with a central opening, said holder formed With perforations near its upper end through which air may be drawn by the discharge of the Water from the tank, a perforated cap located over specification in the presence of tWo subscrih lng Witnesses.

ADOLPH C. BECKER.

the said opening in the cover, and means for WVitnesses: closing the perforations in said cap. a T. J. KELLY,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this J. S. NEAGLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G 

